Rune Peitersen

In his work, Rune Peitersen (1971, Denmark) questions the role of the observer in relation to the observed. Using online available footage alongside imagery and quotes from art history, Peitersen creates works which try to filter out the brain’s interpretation and get to the ‘raw visual input’ received by our eyes, in an attempt to visualize ‘unfiltered reality’. Themes such as the romantic landscape or clair-obscure aesthetics are often employed as stylistic tools, used to both lure the viewer in as well as to wrong-foot him. Although based on a notion of photographic ‘reality’ or ‘authenticity’, his images always reveal themselves as highly constructed – like the reality they are perceived to represent.